I found this rather Pirsigian passage in J M Coetzee's 'The Lives of
Animals':
"If the being of man is really at one with the being of God, should it not
be cause for suspicion that human beingss take eighteen years, a neat and
manageable portion of a human lifetime, to qualify to become decoders of
God's master script, rather than five minutes, say, or five hundred years?
Might it not be that the phenomenon we are examining here is, rather than
the flowering of a faculty that allows access to the secrets of the
universe, the specialism of a rather narrow self-regenerating intelectual
tradition whose forte is reasoning, in the same way that the forte of
chess-players is playing chess, which for its own motives it tries to
install at the centre of the universe."
The idea is accredited to Paul Davies' 1992 book 'The Mind of God'
And I also found this extract which summarises my current problem with the
MOQ:
"it runs the risk of becoming ... yet another Western crusade ...claiming
universality for what are simply its own standards" - if it is used in the
hands of the wrong people.
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